Rush Holt Jr.

'''Rush Dew Holt Jr. '''(15 October 1948-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NJ 12) from 3 January 1999 to 3 January 2015 (succeeding Michael Pappas and preceding Bonnie Watson Coleman).

Biography
Rush Dew Holt Jr. was born in Weston, West Virginia in 1948, the son of US Senator Rush Holt Sr.. He became a physicist and taught at Swarthmore College from 1980 to 1988 before working for the State Department from 1987 to 1989, and, in 1998, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat. He supported caps on greenhouse gas emissions, educational initiatives, and the right to choose, and he launched a (unsuccessful) bid for the US Senate in 2013 and retired a year later.